And the reverse record is (I think) held by Eric Hollies, who took 5 five-fers but no (other) four-fers.
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Meaningless and stupid cricket statistics
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Starfighter
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Yeah its for stats that are presented as insightful but are actually vapid and meaningless (like comparing van der Dussen's record with Tendulkars after x innings, or batting averages when you remove all of a batsman's good innings).
'Most wickets without a five for' is just a bit of trivia.
Coronis
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I mean its a statistic, it doesn’t really have much meaning?
Is this really bothering people? I don’t want to have to create a new thread for statistical quirks I come across
SillyCowCorner1
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Devon Smith has a better record in T20is than Dwayne Smith.
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That used to be Sanga off Ajmal followed by Hobbs off Mailey I believe. When did Smith overtake them and who's the bowler?
Coronis
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Not sure of the exact match, but now according to Davis it changed during the Ashes. Smith, with 577 off Broad. (11 dismissals)
Pujara has 571 off Lyon (13 dismissals), with Kohli at 529 off Lyon (7 dismissals).
Some other notables regarding this stat. Bradman makes the list at 493 with Hammond, being dismissed by him 3 times. Bradman also scored 243 runs off Mankad in a series without being dismissed by him - Viv Richards scored 298 runs against Emburey without being dismissed. Grimmett bowled the most balls to a single player - 1748 (equivalent to 291 overs and 2 balls) to Sutcliffe conceding 515 runs for 7 dismissals. Almost 400 more balls than any other bat/bowl combo.
Smith bowled one ball in his career to Tendulkar and got him out. Noice.
Brook's side
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Chris Cairns has a lower bowling strike rate than Wasim Akram, and had also hit the most 6s per match in test match cricket.
Prince EWS
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Where are you getting these stats?
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I would imagine playing for Zimbabwe he wouldn't have gotten as much 3rd/4th innings bowling because opposition would often either only have to bat once or the 2nd innings would be relatively short? Still doesn't fully explain it
Looking at the stats themselves it's not exactly a lot of games/wickets so it's probably just a sample size issue
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Coronis
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the big bambino
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It'd be the Davis blog - z scores or something. Good luck finding the article though. He has no idea collating and indexing so you'd just have to scroll for it.